NS on Southwest DING fares?

[Daisysmom]

Seems like every time I do a trial on a ding fare, you can't get the NS flights - I just tried to get one out of Indpls on a Tuesday immediately after they were posted - and all the non-stop flights come back unavailable. Do you think they block those for Ding fares?

 

[riu girl]

I have only booked a DING fare once ( last year) and I was able to get non-stops both ways.
But last year there seemed to a lot more ding fares/days of the weeks available.

 

[CarolA]

SW is clearly using Dings to sell less popular dates and times... (maybe they caught on to the fact that Ding didn't seem to be selling new tickets as opposed to giving people credits). There are several threads on here about fewer dings and more restrictions) So it may be that yes all the non stops are blocked as they don't need a Ding to sell them...

 

[philaround]

Earlier this year I was able to get N/S flights for our May trip. Are you clicking on the DING message or going into the SW web site. DING fares and availabiltiy can only be accesed thru the DING system and not on the regular web site.